Tanzania Baptist Theological Seminary

Academic Theological Resources

Digital Software & Tools

EBSCO Open Dissertations: This includes millions of research topics in any category.  LibraOffice Software: This Microsoft Office alternative is free to use for writing reports, producing presentations or imaging
EBSCO Digital Archive: This includes millions of books, journal articles, research material, and dissertations through EBSCO. Access to ATLA and JSTOR are also included in this library as well as SWBTS content.  Username: swbtswmc187  Password: wmcswbts187 E-Sword: Is a free Bible study tool for the PC. It includes Bibles, languages, commentaries, reference sets, books, search tools, and audio sermon archive. 
OADTL: Open Access Digital Theological Library contains millions of books related to theological studies, as well as millions of articles, thousands of theological journals, and over 90 databases.  Logos Bible Software: Free version works on PC, Apple, and smartphone and ctonains Bibles, commentaries, reference works and media. 
JETS: The Journal of The Evangelical Theological Society is a collection of archives going back to the 1950’s mainly related to theological research.  Bible Gateway: Bible Gateway contains Bibles in many different languages and versions. 
Google Scholar: Contains an archive of billions of records related to scholarly research and links to libraries around the world. Use this to find books, articles, journals, theses, and other academic resources. Blue Letter Bible: Is an online Bible study tool that includes Bible versions, commentaries, reference works, language look-ups, and other theological resources. 
ATLA Digital Library: Provides digital collections from libraries around the world and includes pictures, texts, records, maps, recordings and other digital material.  Enduring Word Commentary: Contains a commentary for all the books of the Bible. 
CCEL: Christian Classics Ethreal Library contains completed books from Christian authors throughout history.  Hundreds of thousands of books are available to you.  Open Access Digital Commentaries: Provides access to numerous complete commentary sets online. 
DOAB: The Directory of Open Access Books provides nearly 100,000 books on a variety of topics in multiple languages that are completely free to use and keep.  Percept Austin: This portal provides access to commentaries, Bible dictionaries, languages resources including Hebrew and Greek, word studies, and sermon helps. 
JSTOR: Provides millions of academic articles, books, periodicals, journals and other primary resources.  ERIC: Is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education.
DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals contains over 20,000 academic journals and over 10 million article records. 
Princeton Theological Commons: Contains theological resources from Princeton Theological Seminary.  
Yale University Digital Archive: Access to Yale’s vast library of multi-media including full texts. 
Oxford Academic: Contains hundreds of thousands of resources in multiple research categories.  Can be used for general research.